- present participle of shirk.
shirking
Example Sentences
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Without shirking responsibility, the 52-year-old explained that her judgment had been clouded in part by other circumstances in her life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
Employees monitor social-media posts to spot users’ latest methods for shirking their missions, said Jay Shin, chief executive of DelightRoom, the South Korean company behind Alarmy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
If letting Claude kill people on its own is not shirking oversight mechanisms, then we might reasonably question which “oversight mechanisms” Anthropic is talking about.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026
The board's chair, Ciaran Mulgrew, said it had been across all the problems since before 2023 and he said "no-one is shirking responsibility".
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2024
He did his work in the same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones’s time, never shirking and never volunteering for extra work either.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
